Santa Maria Eviction Risk: High

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 30.3% against 11.3% nationally. The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Housing insecurity runs 32.0% against 14.2% nationally. Against the Santa Barbara County average of 7.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points.

This is renter territory: 67% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.8/10.

Average gross rent is $1,489, 23% below the Santa Maria average. Against Santa Barbara County at 51.2%, 45% of renters here are cost-burdened.

The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the national scale it lands near the 95th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.5/10.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.